Re: Very early alpha state pure JavaScript implementation of the RDFa API draft spec released

I have only one word as a comment: WOW!

:-)

Ivan

On Oct 4, 2010, at 23:00 , Thomas Steiner wrote:

> Hi RDFa API Working Group,
> 
> I have released a very early alpha state pure JavaScript
> implementation of the RDFa API draft spec. It has still many flaws,
> and I'd like to sit down with you guys in order to get some open
> questions sorted, but at this stage it's ("it" being my
> implementation) already usable enough to be the foundation for a
> Chrome extension [0]. Rather than calling document.* you call
> LinkedData.API.* (I've put the API in my own namespace to avoid
> confusion with potential native implementations, and yepp, I do vote
> for renaming the API). I have coded an extension around example 1.3
> from the current draft spec [1]. The whole magic happens in just two
> calls:
> 
> LinkedData.API.data.context.setMapping(
>   'cc',
>   'http://creativecommons.org/ns#');
> LinkedData.API.getElementsByProperty('cc:license');
> 
> The extension is more or less just a toy, but the provided JavaScript
> code should already be good enough to test the examples in the latest
> spec draft. The library is implemented using XPath and not at all
> intended to be fast, or elegant, and currently just supports RDFa and
> has many of the advanced API calls mocked out. I'm happy to keep
> improving the code if anyone is interested. Just let me know. Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 
> [0] http://bit.ly/rdfalaser
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-api/#data-based-web-page-modification
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Steiner, Research Scientist, Google Inc.
> http://blog.tomayac.com, http://twitter.com/tomayac
> 


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